Trump was Right About Iran’s Bomb

President Trump’s warning that Iran posed an “imminent threat” to the United States and its allies was grounded in intelligence about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

According to former Iranian intelligence officials who had direct knowledge of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle, a crucial meeting was scheduled for February 28 involving senior Iranian leaders responsible for decisions about the country’s covert nuclear weapons program.

The gathering was meant to determine whether Iran would move forward with turning its existing supply of highly enriched uranium into nuclear weapons. Despite airstrikes carried out in June 2025 against Iranian enrichment and production facilities, Iran still possessed about 460 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent. Iranian security officials had been debating whether to take the final step and convert that material into operational nuclear warheads.

These deliberations had been taking place in a series of meetings organized through the Supreme Leader’s office. The February 28 session was intended to be the decisive one, with the Supreme Leader expected to personally authorize the transition from enrichment to weaponization.

If approval had been granted, Brigadier General Hossein Jabal Amelian — who led the organization responsible for nuclear weapon development — was prepared to order the activation of a mobile centrifuge facility designed to further enrich the uranium. The plan was to raise enrichment from 60 percent to roughly 93 percent and then convert the uranium hexafluoride gas into solid uranium metal cores suitable for nuclear bombs.

Estimates from the International Atomic Energy Agency indicated that Iran already had enough 60 percent enriched uranium to produce as many as ten nuclear warheads with roughly two additional weeks of enrichment. The agency had also concluded that Iran had developed a viable warhead design and had the capability to manufacture the sophisticated non-nuclear components required for such weapons.

Intelligence sources say the United States or Israel had managed to place a source within the group of officials involved in the February 28 meeting. That individual had reportedly been supplying information about Iran’s nuclear activities for several years.

Shortly before the meeting began, the source sent a final message revealing the time and location of the gathering. The agent was unable to leave the facility before a strike occurred and was killed along with the other attendees inside the Supreme Leader’s compound that morning.

The intelligence warning is said to have prompted President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move up the timing of a joint operation targeting Iranian leadership figures involved in military and nuclear planning.

Among those reported killed in the strike were several senior Iranian officials, including Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme Council on National Defense; Major General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Major General Abolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces; Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, Iran’s defense minister; and Brigadier General Hossein Jabal Amelian, head of the Organization of Defense Innovation and Research, which oversees nuclear weapons development. Also killed was Reza Mozaffari-Nia, a senior director and former head of the same organization.

Initial statements from Israel indicated that Brigadier General Mohammad Shirazi, who led the Supreme Leader’s military office, and Salah Asadi, an intelligence chief within Iran’s emergency command structure, had also attended the meeting and died in the attack. Later reports suggested those two officials were instead killed in a separate Israeli airstrike carried out two days afterward.

One unresolved issue in the conflict remains the location of Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 percent.

Speaking to reporters Monday morning at Palm Beach International Airport beside Air Force One, President Trump said ongoing contacts between special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Iranian representatives could potentially lead to an agreement that ends the fighting and reduces future tensions.

According to the President, Iranian officials have indicated they may be willing to transfer the enriched uranium stockpile to the United States as part of a possible settlement.